Greg Cockburn
Principal Consultant at Serve 2 Serve Pty Ltd
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorGreg Cockburn is a principal consultant and seasoned technology leader with over 14 years of hands-on experience designing, operating and transforming cloud-native systems, particularly on AWS. He began as a UNIX/Linux systems administrator and application ops specialist and now blends deep technical troubleshooting with people-first leadership to drive culture, process and digital transformation across startups and enterprises. As Director of Serve2Serve and now Principal Consultant at AC3, he mentors teams and clients to resolve complex system issues while envisioning solutions from 30,000ft down to implementation detail. An active open-source contributor, Greg has contributed to tooling like cfndsl (adding YAML output and core CloudFormation helpers) and maintains event sites such as devopsdays, reflecting a pragmatic focus on quality, automation and continuous delivery. Known for pairing opinionated engineering with a collaborative approach, he’s as comfortable fixing RuboCop style issues as he is shaping organisational change.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
rubocop10
aws-cloudformation10
manage10
website-admin10
ruby10
github9
devops9
yaml9
json9
release-management8
cicd7
eventbrite7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cfndsl/cfndsl
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
A DSL for generating Amazon Web Services CloudFormation templates.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 189 commits, 186 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Greg's commits primarily focus on maintaining and improving the `cfndsl/cfndsl` repository, a DSL for generating AWS CloudFormation templates. Their contributions involve fixing Rubocop issues, which indicates a focus on code quality and automated style enforcement. They also added support for YAML output and included updates to the project's version, highlighting involvement in release management and potentially build processes. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to Fn::Sub and added Fn::Cidr, demonstrating an understanding of core functionality of this DSL.
amazondslweb-servicesamazon-web-servicescloudformation-templates
jedi4ever/devopsdays-webby
Jan 2013 - Mar 2014
Website code for the devopsdays website
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:62 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Greg primarily worked on updating and maintaining the website code for the devopsdays website. Their contributions included updating dates, removing outdated content, modifying sponsorship packages, and adding new pages for registration and accommodation. They also made changes to the CSS and incorporated Google Maps functionality. The user's work focused on content updates and maintaining the event's information.
devopsdays
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